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Matches Activity Of Regular Expression In Uipath

In this article, we will discuss the "Matches" activity of regular expression in UiPath.

Purpose

The "Matches" activity searches a pattern in the input string and returns the matches string.

In this example, we will read a text file and find the list of all emails in the text file. Here is the text file.

Let us now work on an example. In this example, we will work on the following steps: -

Drag and drop the "Read Text File" activity to read the text file and assign the value to a string variable

Drag and drop the "Matches" activity and click on the "Configure Regular Expression…" button

A window will appear to select the regular expression. For this example, we have selected "Email" as "Regex"
Click on the "Save" button

In the properties window of the "Matches" activity, specify the input string and the output variable

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